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Posted by Greg Dotts on 03/08/05 03:19
Sure enough Kirk! That was it. Seems strange that you can set a
name/value pair on the <form> tag, but they aren't used. Guess they
were just kidding ;-)
Greg
Greg Dotts wrote:
> Sure enough Kirk! That was it. Seems strange that you can set a
> name/value pair on the <form> tag, but they aren't used. Guess they
> were just kidding ;-)
>
> Greg
>
>
> kjohnson@zootweb.com wrote:
>
>> I think the problem is that the name and value attributes of the
>> <form> tag aren't posted with the rest of the data, i.e.,
>> $_POST['form'] isn't defined.
>>
>> You will need to code the form identifier a different way, e.g.,
>> either a <hidden> field, or, unique name and value attributes in a
>> <submit> button.
>>
>> Kirk
>>
>>
>> Greg Dotts <listmember@dottsfamily.com> wrote on 03/07/2005 03:47:55 PM:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm new to PHP, but have read my "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL" manual
>>> and have searched the net for a solution to my (presumably simple)
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> I have a series of HTML forms that need to be processed. I am tring
>>> to build a "process.php" file which will evaluate the FORM variable
>>> and select the proper code from a SWITCH statement. I have
>>> processed these forms using a different construct with IF ELSE
>>> statments, but it's getting messy and SWITCH looked like a good
>>> solution. The problem is that it doesn't work - isn't that always
>>> the problem! I can't find anything but simple examples of SWITCH
>>> usage on the net. Would someone be good enough to evaluate this
>>> script? Much thanks!!
>>>
>>> Below is the "process.php" script and the form tags go something
>>> like
>>
>> this:
>>
>>
>>> <FORM action="process.php" method="post" name="form"
>>> value="addcontact">
>>> Some fields go here...
>>> </FORM>
>>>
>>> <FORM action="process.php method="post" name="form" value="addletter">
>>> More fields go here...
>>> </FORM>
>>>
>>> <?php
>>> //Include database access info
>>> include("setup.php");
>>> //Connect to the database server
>>> @mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass)or die(mysql_error());
>>> @mysql_select_db ($db) or die(mysql_error());
>>>
>>> //<------ Begin Main Script ------>
>>> $x = $_POST['form'];
>>> //Evaluate which form we are receiving and process the results
>>> switch ($x) {
>>> case "addcontact":
>>> //Get the form variables
>>> $cgroup = $_POST['cgroup'];
>>> $fname = $_POST['fname'];
>>> $lname = $_POST['lname'];
>>> $address = $_POST['address'];
>>> $city = $_POST['city'];
>>> $state = $_POST['state'];
>>> $zipcode = $_POST['zipcode'];
>>> $phone = $_POST['phone'];
>>> $email = $_POST['email'];
>>> //Insert form data into the database
>>> $query = "INSERT INTO contacts SET cgroup='$cgroup', fname='$fname',
>>> lname='$lname', address='$address', city='$city', state='$state',
>>> zipcode='$zipcode', phone='$phone', email='$email'";
>>> $result = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
>>> break;
>>>
>>> case "addletter":
>>> //Get the form variables
>>> $lgroup = $_POST['lgroup'];
>>> $lname = $_POST['lname'];
>>> $content = $_POST['lcontent'];
>>> //Insert form data into the database
>>> $query = "INSERT INTO letters SET lgroup='$lgroup', lname='$lname',
>>> lcontent='$lcontent'";
>>> $result = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
>>> break;
>>> }
>>> mysql_close();
>>> ?>
>>> //END SCRIPT
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Greg Dotts
>>>
>>> If quitters never win, and winners never quit,
>>> what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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